Chair-bottom



(No Model.)

R. MITCHELL.

GHAIRBOTTOM.

Pat entd Feb. 8, 1887.

flexible material, and is preferably provided with the perforations b, which correspond in FFICE PATENT ROBERT'MITCHELL, or AVONDALE, OHIO.

CHAlR-BOTTOM.*

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,405, dated February 8, 1887.

Application filed July 1, 1886. Serial No. 2Q6,774. (No model.)

To It whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT MITCHELL, a resident of Avondale, Hamilton county, Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ohair-Bottoms, of whichthe following is a specification.-

The object of my invention is to provide a chair-bottom which shall combine the advantages of the ordinary cane seat and of the leather bottom, and which at the same time shall be free from. certain of the disadvantages of both.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this application, Figure 1 is a top view of a chair-bottom eonstructedaccording to my invention. Fig. 2 is a top view of a cane-seat bottom. Fig. 3 is a top view of my improved chair-bottom in which the upper layer composing the seat is partly cut away, showing the cane seat beneath.

I first provide the bottom with an ordinary cane seat, A, as shown in Fig. 2, and over the cane seat I then secure by any suitable means the cover or upper layer of the bottom B.

The layer Bis made of leather, felt, or other position to the openings at in the cane seat beneath.

This bottom is particularly strong, having the combined strength of the cane and the flexible material forming the upper layer.

Leather bottoms are valuable because of their softness, but are undesirable because of the readiness with which they sag and lose their shape. The cane bottoms, on the other hand, retain their shape much longer than the flexibie bottoms, but are not so soft, and are muchmore destructive to clothing.

My improved chair-bottom possesses both of the above-mentioned advantages of the cane seat and the leather bottom, and by its peculiar construction avoids the disadvantages of each. In addition, like the cane seat, it possesses the advantage of ventilation.

I do-not purpose to limit the use of this invention to chairs, but to apply it also to benches, lounges, sofas, &c.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A chair-seat consisting of a lower layer of woven cane and an upper layer of flexible material separate from the lower layer, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

ROBERT MITCHELL.

Witnesses:

D. T. ROBB, O. M. HILL. 

